Also called: Mobile Food Entrepreneur
Owns and runs a food truck business, often as a first step to a restaurant.
You plan your weekly route on social media, cook during service, handle permits in each city, and fix the generator when it quits. A popular truck can book weddings and corporate lunches. Many famous restaurants started as food trucks.
Very variable; a hit truck or small fleet can be very profitable.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. No required education; startup costs about $50k-$200k.
Ways in: Self-taught, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Entrepreneurship, Culinary Arts.
Growing faster than average.
Low risk for 10 years. Apps handle ordering and location posts; the food, the truck and the hustle stay human.
Classes: Business, Culinary arts CTE, Accounting.
Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.